Where does “ཁ་ཆེའི་ལྷ” come from?

ཁ་ཆེའི་ལྷ (Dzongkha) comes from Tibetan ལྷ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan m-hla — soul; god; demon.

ཁ་ཆེའི་ལྷ (Dzongkha): Allah, the God of Islam

Definitions

  1. Allah, the God of Islam

Ancestry of “ཁ་ཆེའི་ལྷ”, step by step

ཁ་ཆེའི་ལྷ traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Tibetan ལྷ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanལྷgod, deity
2Proto-Sino-Tibetanm-hlasoul; god; demon

via Tibetan འི

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1TibetanའིOne of the five genitive particles, used after...
2TibetanགིOne of the five genitive particles, used after

via Dzongkha ཁ་ཆེ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dzongkhaཁ་ཆེMuslim
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